Manufacture of meal for use in connection with sausage meat, meat and fish paste, and the like



Patented Sept. 24, 1929 UNl'l'liD STATES Parent ALFRED OWE-N MORRIS, OF LIVERPOOL, ENGLAND MANUFACTURE OF MEAL FOR USE IN CONNECTION WITH SAUSAGE FISH PASTE, AND THE LIKE No Drawing.

5 Meals ot' the kind herein concerned are used in minced or finely chopped meats such are used in sausages, meat and fish pastes, and the like, for binding the. material and to hold and retain the natural juices and moisture in it, and in some cases the meal is coloured for the purpose of imparting to the sausage meat, or the like, a pleasing or appetizing appearance.

It has been found, however, that such coloured meals when mixed with the meat, paste, or the like, as the case may be, are unsatisfactory, ior one reason that the meat or article containing the coloured or tinted meal, shows spots or blotches of relatively highly coloured pink or red, which gives to the meat or food a spotty or speckled, and therefore objectionable appearance; and the primary object and efiect of this invention is to provide a meal which will not have these detests and objections; that is to say, to provide'a meal or the kind concerned which will impart to the meat a uniform tinted pleasing and appetizing appearance.

In the method of preparing the meal hereinatter described, the improvements according to this invention are comprised.

In the manufacture of the meal material, a certain quantity of starch, preferably maize starch, is used, and this quantity of starch is first coloured by dissolving a quantity of colour in a relatively large quantity of water, and then applying it to the starch by spraying it evenly on to it, the efiect being that the starch absorbs it, and it is uniformly distributed in it, the starch thus becoming a moistened mass; and then this starch is dried to the degree in which the surplus moisture is driven oil, and ieved, resulting in a dry powdery compound; and a small quantity of i5 this dry tinted or coloured starch is added to and mixed with a relatively large quantity or" any suitable flour, or like cereal material, corntlour being preferred; and this product constitutes the commercial article for 0 use in connection with the meats, fish pastes Application filed March 18, 1926.

Serial No. 95,786.

or the like, with which it can be mixed to the required degree for producing the cii'ects or results specified.

By means of this method of man the meal, in which starch is vehicle or means for receiving. and distributing' by spraying; the colouring matter (preferably pink colouring matter) on it as described, the detects or objections above tacl'urinir referred to, viz, spotting or blotching of the food products. is avoided, the production f a meal which is generally beneficial and satisfactory is accomplished.

As an example of the method of making; the prod ct or article. 1 ounce of a suitable dry pink colour may be di solved in a ion of warm water and 'lntered; and this solution is then distributed to say about 40 1 (T511- ut lbs. of the starch by fine spray whica uniformly tints and moistens it, ans this col- I oured dried starch is added to and mixed with the bulk or body of the meal to be produced, namely, flour, cornfiour, to the extent of about one to two per cent oi the former to the latter; and this compound constitutes the completed article of commerce.

From the above it will. be seen only a very small quantity of dye is used in the meat, which is desirable.

In spraying or atomizinn' the coloured solution to the starch, the latter may be spread out to promote even distribution, while being turned over or mixes. in mi); ing; machine.

Regarding the colour used, thi preferably is an aniline dye of high purity, such as is now used in food.

In cases where the meal is to be used in connection with sausages which after cook in); have to be sliced, it is desirable, to enable this slicing to be well done and without crumbling, that a certain amount oi? glutin or the like should be contfined the ineal, and this quantity can be i'urnished by using a flour containing glutin, such as wheat flour; but in other cases such as u it in ordinary sausages, fiour containing; no gglutin, such cornfiour, should be used, as a flour glutin introduces difiiculties in the working of the meat in the skin filling machine, and in the filling of the meat into the skins.

What is claimed is The method of making an evenly colored or tinted meal for use in connection with sausage meat, meat, fish paste, and the like, consisting in spraying a tinted liquid onto starch to cause the starch to absorb the liquid and be evenly colored thereby, driving off the moisture of the colored starch, sieving the product to obtain a dry'powdery mass, and finally mixing a relatively small quantity of this dry powdery colored product with flour to provide an evenly use described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification.

ALF. O. MORRIS.

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